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siyofon 4 nigeria

Country: Nigeria

Organization: SOLID YOUTH FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA[SIYOFON]

2) Focus of activity: Community Involvement

3) Start Year: sep/16/2001

4) Positioning in the mosaic of solutions:

  •      Main barrier addressed: Limited access to housing finance
  •      Main principle addressed: Leverage resources that are abundant at the local level

    5) Description of housing product/service offering: local community are our piority and we have been able to get accross to gthem in the est and also theless priveledge and the orphaned and vulnearable children who are really in need of this kind of project

    6) Description of innovation: we arent just going to give out thing to people who are not in need of our services but the core people are really our target and people that will benefit from this programme.

    7) Benefits to clients: by organising seminar and programme so that we can really identify people who are really in need of this benefits and i believe our organizattion can really get to the people in the local level with some of our past activities.

    8) Key operational partnerships: our partners are pople who get accross to people especially in the local community who believe will need our product very much and they would be happy that such kind of benefit could come to thier doorstep,we are known with transparency campaigne international[trac coruption] and also friend of the disable who are based in lagos.and also some community leaders who can get accross to a lot of people especially people who are based in thier commmunity.

    9) Financial model: we are not going to make the product not availabe to the people because if we are publicing about a product and some people are limited to benefit from the product so that kind of product is worth producing and does not worth investing on so our product must be beneficiall to the entire public.

              • Costs as percentage of income: 60%

              • Financing: we have beeen sustaining our self from the support of volunteer all over nigeria and this have assisted our organization so greatly because we believe witing for funding will not allow us achieve our aim and objectives which we are proud to say we have been able to achieve for sometimes now and we still happy this is because people funding will not assist people who are really doing the core job but only people who can lie and pretend about what is not real so we are happy for our achievement .

    10) Effectiveness

              • Project outcomes: a lot of people who really are in need of our service have really benefited from our project especially the less privelledge and some ather people who we believe we can assist and put smile on thier face with little out come frome some of our project.

              • Number of clients in past year: over 980 people have benefitted from our programme especially the youth have really benefited from our programme .

              • Percentage of clients that are poor or marginalized: 75%

              • Potential demand: the order of magnitude might not be pecific but let grade it to 10,000 people in general.

    11) Scaling up strategy

              • Stage of the initiative: Start Up stage.

              • Expansion plan: our expansion plan is to get accross to somany people as much as we can get accrosss to them with our services in which the suport of international organization would help achieve that.

    12) Origin of the initiative: it start when we find out that some individual are ben deprived of some various benefit which they have to benefit from all because of one reason or the other they we sideline.

    Contact Information:
    AWESU  olanrewaju
    a journalist
    SOLID YOUTH FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA[SIYOFON]
    (N GO)
    6 OJEI ESTATE OFF, ODOBO STREET ,OKE IRA ,OGBA ,LAGOS, NIGERIA
    Nigeria
    Tel: 23401-8058074500
    Fax: NON
    Email: lawesus4u@yahoo.com
    Website: NON YET



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    Nigeria -a special time for transparency, youth, community rising? Posted August 18 '06, 1:40:24
    I am interested in 2 things you mentioned particularly: leveraging those resources that a community does have in abundance and Transparency International.

    THE AHMISH OF AFRICA Is there anywhere in Africa a benchmark of a community that puts the communal responsibilty for housing and leveraging collaboration resources at the core of its culture (the US benchmark would be the rural Ahmish in Philadelphia). And what has been your own biggest breakthrough in terms of upping the communal willpower to leverage what resources do exist abundantly in the community?

    Has there been some specific intervention that Transparency International have helped you with in sustaining this communal approach. I note that Transparency International's leader Peter Eigen says:

    Transparency is the really urgent challenge. To this end a significant development is the Africa Progress Panel where he's the main expert; Kofi Annan is the chair; Bill Gates is the funder; Geldof the media; Blair the G8 gateway; and the President of Nigeria is the first African head of state to have joined in (but with what goal is unknown to me). I am wondering if this is an extraordinary time for Nigeria to make progress on transparency and if so how youth and your project may fit into the big picture.


    - chris macrae



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